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Super Question Block Turbo Deluxe Edition: Gaming Hot Takes! (Patreon)

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2026-07-06 15:56:50
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2026-07

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Hello Everyone!Hit us with your Gaming Hot Takes for an upcoming Super Question Block and we'll read it on the show and let you know if we agree or disagree!

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Dodsy

Who would win in a fight between the 3 of you?

Spooky Luke

Waluigi sounds like awful wordplay in English but makes a lot more sense in Japanese.

Pickles!

Playing a game at launch is not worth the time and money investment; games are often buggy at launch, and the conversation online is rarely nuanced around most games at that time. Buying games when I can afford them and playing whenever I get around to them has improved my enjoyment of games tenfold.

J-Train

Most N64/PS1 games have aged poorly but are foundational for modern gaming.

Dakota Cahill

Don’t let Shadowheart kill Lae’zel in her sleep at the beginning of the game just to try to bang her, it won’t work and you’ll miss out on a bunch of in game content apparently

SuiteTooth

The best way to experience the story of The Last of Us is watch the 1st season of the TV show, then play Part 2. The story in the 1st game is dog shit, and adapted beautifully… then the story for 2 is best experienced in game form

Matthew Goderre

Hot take: I don’t care if new games stop being on physical media, but there should be some assurance of ownership. Like, let me download it to a hard drive to keep it if I don’t open my PlayStation account for three years, and it gets shut down.

Jonathon Acosta

Unless it’s on gamepass/ps+ or it’s one of my absolute favorite franchises I refuse to buy games at launch. I’m happily 18 months behind the zeitgeist playing games with most of the bugs fixed and all the DLC for a fraction of the price. Looking forward to a 19.99 GTA 6 on a spring sale in 2028.

Lawant

Do you have all time favourite movies?

Ross McCarthy

A new manufacturer will enter the fray in response to the modern gaming trend of subscription services and all digital games in order to offer physical games that are significantly bug-free at launch and have no micro-transactions/live service portion

Cattrax

Watching someone else play the game is more fun than playing it yourself

Robot House

So it's looking likely there will be no physical media on Sony and Microsoft consoles anymore after this generation( or a few months for Sony). That's gonna suck isn't it?

Rambo Schwarzenegger

Finishing and beating hades only once still counts as finishing the game!

Peter WG

The new Bond game is mediocre recycled nonsense

Andvil82

FromSoft games all suck and the Souls-ification of many modern games is a plague

Zeon Liberation

Baldur’s Gate 3 is the worst Baldur’s Gate game.

Deacon Raid

There aren’t enough weird mainstream Edutainment/Simulation Games.

Connor Dilk

My hot take is that online gaming is generally a terrible experience and we'd be much better off with more couch co-op/multiplayer games (first person shooters included)

Mark Pangle

Not every game needs cooking/crafting mechanics. And in fact they bog games down

Jake I

There is no genre more boring than an auto battler, i love holding forward or hey sometimes even right. That is thrilling to me. What the fuck now it’s left??? Masterpiece

Armando

Physical discs will not preserve AAA games with huge files because most of the game has to be downloaded from an online server

toffuti_today

Rocket League is the game that most resembles learning a new skill! (Also, the Rocket League Esports rules! More fun to watch than traditional sports!!)

Corey

To preface: I love games and gaming, but I don’t really want my kid to spend nearly as much time gaming as a kid as I did. I think, to an extent, it isn’t the best use of leisure time. I’m thinking about the hours I spent playing MMOs in my teens and how I could have learned how to play an instrument, or learned a new language, etc. but all I have is vague memories of running through dungeons with random people.

Arj

The increase in user friendliness of games has partially ruined the satisfaction or sense of jeopardy that made successes in games so satisfying. E.g. GTA vice city it was a real pain to lose your weapons and having to drive and restart the mission again if you get wasted or busted. Also manual saving gave moments of real jeopardy e.g. making your way to a save point from a hard won mission would make you almost roleplay as extra cautious, avoiding gangs and the cops. Gtav with all its autosaving and checkpoints makes failure totally inconsequential and thus success less satisfying

LagerB

4k, 60fps, etc. don’t really matter. I still never notice the difference.

SoundaSheep

Hot Take: Gaming shouldn't be your main hobby. It's easy to accidentally isolate yourself if you spend all of your free time gaming at home.

MK

Metaphor: ReFantazio is trash and I'm still "mad" it beat FF7: Rebirth for best role-playing game at the gaming awards.

Spooky Luke

Kratos is an edgelord male Mary Sue character that didn't get any real depth until several games into the series.

Spooky Luke

Blizzard should never live down what they did to Overwatch.

Jeff Byrne

The plot of FF7 is the least interesting of all the PS1 era FF games. Yes, this is the hill I'm willing to die on.

TV's Kevin Lanigan

online multiplayer games should be outlawed by congress. return to the couch!

Lu

I think Almost all games age roughly. Game design, art direction and narrative structure has evolved so much in the past decades of gaming. Suggesting a 15+ year old game to someone new to gaming will almost certainly result in them being underwhelmed at best. That being said I love older games, but I think it’s because I was there for it and can view it from the context in which it came from. Ps Heather and Matt are cool.

Scott Jackson

What's up nerds! My hot take is kind of nice: The explosion in popularity of so-called "friendslop" games actually rules -- they're low-spec which lowers the net so you can play with friends who don't have a hard core gaming pc, they're inexpensive, they're not super complicated to learn and play, and they don't require an insane time investment which I cant appreciate enough as a person in their early late thirties who likes to sleep. I would fully pay to watch a Twitch session of the Get Played gang playing Repo or Peak or something.

Spooky Luke

What would be an example? Like Zachtronics games?

Spooky Luke

Persona 4 is the best of the series.

Clarence Stone

Hot Take: Open World Games like GTA, Assassin's Creed, Almost all of Sonys recent first party games are to blame for the current over bloating of the industry. They've became so expensive to make that companies need to make the live service games that no one asked for to offset to cost

anotherunluckyone

Is it possible to be a fighting game lover AND be non-competitive as a player? My enemy is the CPU, not you.

Deogi

Everything XBOX is doing since Asha Sharma took over is 100% correct and the detractors are just coping with the fact that the gaming industry they grew up with is dying. In the same way that the Global Financial Crisis transformed the economics of American movies, hollowing out mid budget adult movies and non-IP blockbusters, the AI bubble and RAM crisis are doing the same in gaming. I’m not happy about this but the reality of the situation is bleak and XBOX is responding appropriately to that reality

Spooky Luke

Kratos should fight Christianity next.

Will K.

"Videogame" is an outdated term! It worked for how videogames originated. They were "games" on video screens. Games being any activity with a goal that you aim to achieve while playing within a set of rules. This could apply to bowling, chess, Catan, football, arm wrestling, Street Fighter, etc. But once people started making experiences in the videogame medium without a "game" element, I think it caused a lot of confusion which led to terms like "walking simulators" to describe narrative experiences without a game element. I also suspect many non-gamers are missing out on great art such as What Remains of Edith Finch, Mouthwashing or And Roger because of the "game" term. All that to say, I think we need a new term, but I have no idea what's better! Any thoughts?

Robert Russell

I think after the ps2 era a lot less is left for the player to imagine. in mainstream AAA games where every detail is beautifully rendered there is less space for a person to imagine the events of the game.

Spooky Luke

Silent Hill Shattered Memories is an excellent re-imagining of the first entry in the series and deserves to be canon of classic great SH games. The only area where it fell flat was the combat, which (let's be real) was never SH's strong point anyways.

Introcourse

Trails (or Legend of Heroes: Trails) is the best long-running JRPG series and lacks the acknowledgement it deserves. It is a penthouse series and has maybe the best world building of any video game. FYI, they have been releasing remakes of the 1st arc in the series - with last year’s Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter and the upcoming Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter. Highly recommend. Crossbell arc is best arc.

Deacon Raid

I was thinking of the old Maxis games like SimLife or the games from

Tom Emery

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater isn't as fun as I remembered and the remakes somehow *didn't* bring back my youth

Jeff Stacey

Ive always just kinda pretended to notice that stuff. Honestly I couldn't tell you what's what

Deacon Raid

I HATE when I have a hunger meter. I don’t play games to do chores.

Deacon Raid

EA accidentally made the best Hentai game with Sims 4 and mods.

Spooky Luke

Gaming has become more of a lonely hobby, and couch multiplayer needs to make a comeback.

Deacon Raid

Video games should have a Picture in Picture mode so I can second screen more easily (and put a little YouTube video of birds on for my cat)

Spooky Luke

You should check out the Two Point games. They definitely carry a lot of that old 90s Maxis Sim game charm.

ric charl

Big the Cat is good, and the fishing game in Sonic Frontiers where you chill with Big and fish is an absolute vibe.

Ben Walkup

The main reason Expedition 33 had such a dominant run is that 2025 was secretly the most underwhelming year for video games in the last decade, at least in terms of true all-timers Hades II, Death Stranding 2, and Silksong are all very good sequels to more revolutionary games, DK Bananza is *almost* as good as you want it to be, and Kingdom Come II is for a very specific kind of sicko In any other year, there would have been something with more staying power capable of knocking E33 off the top

Deacon Raid

Daily Tasks and Lootboxes in games are designed to encourage addictive behaviors.

abstract homer

Rockstar should retire GTA. it's passed its prime, the current hype cycle for 6 is rancid, and the comedy/satire can no longer keep up with reality - especially with how long it takes them to make these games. just make GTA Online a Fortnite thing and give us Red Dead 3 or, even better, something NEW.

The Internet's CEO

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is a better game than Super Mario World. Better music, better level design, better gameplay.

Satanic Hispanic Panic

My hot take is that every single-player game should have an easy mode. I'm a lifelong gamer who formed his love of gaming in the early-mid 80s, so I am no stranger to tough games. I've beaten plenty. In the 90s I was a Sega kid like Heather (still am!) and I trudged through some heavy games and experienced the joy of overcoming those challenges. However, I'm a middle-aged guy with a family and a demanding job now, and I'm afraid my gaming time ends up necessarily limited. I love the idea of crunchy games like Elden Ring and similar-difficulty adventures, but I find myself falling off pretty quickly because I simply don't have the time to build on the "rinse and repeat" gameplay loop. I understand that the difficulty curve is considered a fundamental part of the experience for many players, but I'd love to be able to dial difficulty down on games just so I can experience the story and have a little fun bashing heads in, even if "lower difficulty" simply meant lower enemy HP and higher player damage. Just something to make the task of battling a boss a bit more attainable for us time-limited folks who still adore gaming. I catch a browbeating about this opinion every time I say it out loud, but I stand firm in believing that more casual difficulty levels do nothing to detract from the game for hardcore players, as long as the developer-intended difficulty remains.

NonsenseSynapse

Game prices have always been undervalued based on what you receive. It seems silly to me that folks will gladly pay $20 for a 2 hour movie and then turn around and complain about paying $80 for a 25 hour game, when you’re getting 3x as much entertainment per dollar spent.

XRedGambit

I have 2 mild takes. Sports games are good (I haven't played them in forever but they were always fun) but they don't need to come out every year now. Now a spicy take for the final fantasy gamers, FF XV is a great game and has one of the best/emotional stories. I actively cried at the game at the end (Walk tall) and didn't with Aerith's death.

Snappingturo

Gamers with big back catalogues should NOT buy any new games in 2026. With costs skyrocketing across the board, entertainment is now becoming very expensive and a lot of us are sitting on hundreds if not thousands of dollars in high quality games we’ve never touched. It’s like a sex strike - no new action (buying games) until conditions improve across the board.

Snappingturo

The difference between 30 and 60 fps should be noticeable but agreed on resolution (esp with older eyes, all looks fine to me).

Tmacc

Hot take: Breath of the Wild is the best video game in the Zelda series, but it is not the best "Zelda" game in the Zelda series. Truly it is a triumph of a video game that influenced everything after it, but it lacks the parts of the Zelda formula that are, to me, integral to the experience. Therefore, despite being one of the best video games of all time and possibly the best game in the series (debatable), it is definitely NOT the best "Zelda" game.

N_trap_mnt

Hot take: Playstation is completely justified getting rid of discs because that's all people buy anyway. PC is completely digital now, Switch 2 cards are often just keys, and big games don't fit on the discs anyway. It's like how they don't make nearly as many cool cars anymore, because all people buy are trucks and crossover SUVs (in the USA, anyway) I wish this wasn't the case (on both fronts), but the consumers voted with their wallets and now it's done. I humbly request the messenger not be shot 🤦🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️

Michael Pemulis

More books should be made into videogames. I want to play as a shiftless expat, in Europe, drunk on wine all day, making racist remarks, going to bullfights in the afternoon, and then lusting after my lady friends in the evening, but we can't fuck, because my stuff doesn't work, because of the war, and I'm sad.

thehobknoblin

Your favourite game does not need to be the best game (see: Get Played Game of the Year) This also applies to other media but I guess that was not the question.

Cathode Ray Dude

Modern gaming is split too drastically between casual mobile gaming and “hardcore” console/pc gaming that’s not approachable to average people. (Silksong being a recent example.) We need more Super Mario 3 type games that find a happy medium.

Spooky Luke

Switch 2 key cards are kind of asinine but they are still better than digital storefront being the only option.

Brody

Cold take: Heather

OneCarPileup

Hot take: In anthology series/long running series (Final Fantasy) changing project leads is healthier and helps the games actively evolve I know that you will always have your Kojima's and Suda 51s, but I think they are the exceptions

Sean Walker

Modern first party Nintendo games are front-loaded with too much dialogue and establishing the story. Starting new games with my kids is always such a slog - we just want to jump in and play the game.

Bill B

Video game hot take, by Bill: GTA in any form, for any generation, is largely not a fun experience.

James

Majoras Mask isn’t a Zelda game. There is no Hyrule, Princess Zelda, Ganon, or triforce. You hardly even play as Link.

Way Singleton

Video games need more animated series adaptations. Live action is fun but would love to see some more animated content like Arcane.

Joe

PlayStation 6 will have very little reason to exist now that Sony is going digital. Unlike Nintendo, they don't have good enough first party exclusives to justify a PS6 over a PC.

Homac

I love the Batmobile in Arkham Knight. It's not for traversal, that's what your Grapnel and gliding is for. The Batmobile is another tool from your utility belt you should bring out as needed, never just to get from A to B.

Erratic Warlock

Souls-like games are becoming monotonous. The core mechanic is just stale due to over saturation, and I think people will start losing interest if FromSoft and other Souls-like games don’t start evolving

XRedGambit

In the first outing of games Mario (super Mario bros) is faster than sonic (sonic 1). According to the internet Mario can run 20m/s while Sonic tops out at 10m/s

Pants!

GTA games have all around shitty gameplay (shitty driving and combat), cringe edgelord humor, and along with the shitty jingoistic COD games represent the worst in gaming. I hope gta 6 never comes out and if it does, fails miserably as a the shitty franchise it is. TLDR GTA is the "joker" of video games.

Bobson Dugnutt

I still buy physical media whenever I can. If you look at trends, I think this is a huge mistake by Sony. Physical media is seeing a revival with Gen Z

Andy Hunter

Not sure if this is a hot take, but I think there’s a real chance that the PS6 and next Xbox might flop so hard that they actually go back to just supporting the PS5 and Xbox series. The prices will be so high and I have to imagine the hardware advances will not make a noticeable difference to 99% of players.

MagicSchoolBussy

Not every action game needs a god damn posture meter or some other equivalent. Just let me deal raw damage to an enemy without having to jump through this shitty extra hoop! Totally ruined Armored Core 6 for me, and I adore that series

Sssiiimmmooonnn

Hot Take: I’ve been a video game fan my entire life, but I’ve always been a little reticent to confess that to people when I first meet them, partly because video game / gamer culture is deeply problematic and embarrassing, and partly because dominant video game aesthetics can be quite juvenile and cringe. There is arguably a group-think within the community, that has determined authoritatively what video games are and should be - when really, like any medium, there are many branching and divergent artforms contained within the catch all term “video-game”. This is the kind of gate-keeping that can make fandoms feel unwelcoming to the uninitiated, and I believe has withheld some of the treasures contained within the medium, from wider cultural acceptance. To illustrate this, my top 5 favourite video games of all time are (in descending order) The Last of Us Part 2, MGS1, Silent Hill 2, Dark Souls, Earthbound. The main thing connecting these titles is atmosphere, cinematic presentation, and themes of isolation. Non-gamers think of video games as mindless distractions, button mashing kill simulators, bright, colourful, and lacking any substance or depth. That’s certainly true of many different kinds of games. But some of the games I like the best are frustratingly difficult to play, oppressively bleak and narratively challenging - experiences I wouldn’t necessarily class as “fun”. Although, put those elements together and you might just call that a potent mix.

Wirt Salthouse

Hot Take: they should make harmonicas shaped like game cartridges.

Paul J Larkin

This mildly warm take is a little anti-capitalist, but I'm making it in the shadow of today's announcement from Xbox that they're laying off about 3,200 employees (roughly 20% of the division), parting ways with multiple studios, and likely have more cuts inbound over the next couple of years. Much of their budgetary problems seem to stem from Microsoft's overinvestment in AI — layoffs in the gaming division have been an easy quick-fix that lets them spend obscene amounts in LLM development without positive returns and still (sort of) balance the books. So let's pass a law that forbids any business that invests over a certain percentage of their budget — 5% for enterprise-level businesses? 10%? I'll leave that to the money smarties to figure out — in AI or, maybe to make it less targeted, "emerging technologies," from acquiring gaming studios. Make them spin their gaming division off into an independent business. Wouldn't protect dev studios from disasters like Embracer Group, but it could buffer against stupid bets on the future like the ones Microsoft has made.

Rob Johnson

Gaming peaked in the 16-bit era My back catalogue is a full romset of SNES & Mega Drive games on Everdrive - I’m very slowly working through it and , in theory, never need buy another game

Brandon R

Hot take: the yellow paint showing where you can climb is good, I much prefer it to getting lost and wasting time wandering around not sure where I’m supposed to go because I didn’t realize a small part of the wall was climbable.

Sam Campbell

Too many new games are open world. Those open worlds are often empty just so the game can claim to be open world. And in a lot of cases (Pokemon being my favorite example) it changes how the gameplay works in a negative way.

Brandon R

More of a take on storytelling in general but also applies to games: there’s not too many remakes and reboots, it’s just become trendy to dislike them. Since the dawn of time storytellers have been taking old stories and retelling them with their own flavour and modern twists.

Nugz

💯

Chris

Every game should have the fast forward cutscene toggle that the Final Fantasy Remake games have. I don’t want to skip the cutscenes but I also want to get back to playing faster!

Spooky Luke

Obviously less lonely if you also host a gaming-themed podcast where you get to talk with your funny friends about the games you play.

Spooky Luke

Ranch comes in as a dark horse and beats them all.

Steven Toth

My hot take- I hate choices in games. Give me a solid, structured narrative. Tell me a story.

Mad Dog Dak (Dakota Stephens)

Hot Take more like Mild Take: if buying a game isn’t owning it, then pirating isn’t stealing Other Hot Take: remasters and remakes are best to play if you never experienced the original product on prior consoles you don’t own. If you have access to the original there is no need to get them. (I just bought a ps3 for that reason)

Mad Dog Dak (Dakota Stephens)

Worst part of gaming was the generation of single player games with lack luster online game mod with achievements/trophies that are linked to the platinum

Peter H.

I'm conflicted on it. From a game preservation standpoint it's kind of a weak argument... physical media won't last forever due to disc rot, and with how often games ship in a broken state and are saved by day one patches (and later) you still rely on digital store fronts to really make a game playable. The amount of material spent to manufacturer physical media and the fuel/packing materials to ship them is also wasteful. The digital key cards/codes in boxes are the absolute worst version of this. On the other hand Sony simultaneously shutting down the PS3/Vita servers highlights the biggest flaw of this approach -- these digital storefronts won't last forever. Some people still don' t have reliable access to high speed internet too to support massive downloads. I'd love for someone (EU?) to force manufacturers to have end of life plans for devices to prevent them from being e-waste. In this case Sony could say "The PS6 will have a 20 year supported lifespan from launch day, after that we will put out a final OS release that allows side loading of applications" and then just let it be a free for all. Hackers have essentially enabled that for every major console well before that time span and have done a far better job at game preservation than any manufacturer every has, so just let us have it without the extra hoops of modding. I'm sure this would be a licensing nightmare though.

Ralph Ciotti

Potential Spoiler alert for Disco Elysium - while I thought the game was brilliant, the actual solution to the main mystery was totally random and unsatisfying. Kind of ruined the end of the game for me.

ryan mcgrath

Destiny’s Kings fall raid has the best platforming of any first person shooter.

SneakyKittyy

There should be WAY more cat games 😤

Peter H.

Hot take: Death Stranding would be a better TV series than a game. I've played both and I find the core gameplay to be dull, and most of the dialog is really repetitive. Any time I see the "Focus M" meme videos, all I think about is Death Stranding's over-explanation of everything. (2 was better in that regard at least.) I spent so much time building roads, zip lines, etc, and they make the few moments where the game tries to introduce an element of danger by requiring a fast delivery of some dangerous thing just absolutely trivial. The game's only real challenge comes from clunky controls which is just frustrating. It's also easy to escape or bypass BTs entirely too. I'm happy for people that enjoyed the game, but reflecting on the 60+ hours spent across the two (probably more?) -- I can't say I enjoyed them as games. The cut scenes have some incredible art direction, animation, cinematography, music, etc... but none of your gameplay choices really influence that, so it'd just be better as a TV show.

Peter H.

I recently replayed it on Switch 2 and would agree. The closest thing to the temples are the Divine Beasts and they're over so quickly. There are some fantastic shrines that have great puzzle solving and are almost temple-like, but there's also plenty of duds and reused "tests of strength" ones

Kevin M

The moment major developers became aware of the term “cozy game” is the moment the genre died. In the same way you can’t intentionally create a cult classic you can’t make your games cozy. They always come off as too tryhard or just downright boring. If you want to see what I mean, go on PlayStation network and look at their Cozy genre and see what they have on there. Bubsy is on there for gods sake!

Joel Pelanne

I don't think there's a console that looks more aesthetically pleasing than an off-white to off-off white aged Japanese Sega Saturn that looks like it was in the apartment of a chain-smoking salary man who played Virtual On like it was going to save him.

Bryan Lambert

All video games should be required to have an opening animation, complete with original song, preferably with lyrics. Smaller studios without the wherewithal to produce them should have the production funded by government grants.

Peter H.

Hot take: Most casual gamers should just use streaming game services instead of buying new hardware. 1. High end hardware is increasingly expensive thanks to AI/memory shortages. You already have everything you need to stream games from the cloud today and you never have to shell money for new hardware again. 2. The latency is good enough for most gamers, especially for people who can't tell between 30 fps and 60 fps. 3. It's environmentally more friendly. A lot of resources go into manufacturing hardware and if that goes into a household that rarely uses it then it's not the best use of resources. If it goes into a data center it can be utilized around the clock by many different gamers, or put to use with other compute tasks. The net energy use will be the same if it's in your home vs. in a data center + streaming, but the hardware utilization is much greater so it amortizes the production costs out. Primary exceptions to this: gamers who want the highest frame rates/lowest latency, portable users who want gaming without internet dependence, and people with unstable internet connections.

Eddarrd88

When is the Heather watches Austin Powers listen-along episode coming out?

Grant Prusi

Final Fantasy II is the best of the NES Final Fantasy games.

Big Chunk of the fanbase

I’ll take hot grunty, that’s what this is right, like we get to take a hot character? Me Bella grunty

Joshua Perez

I know these are hot takes, but that's like saying "Watching End of Eva till the end credits counts as finishing the movie"

Daniel Nash

Bioshock stole the concept of the Big Daddy from No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.’s Way

Greg Haws

My hot take: there would be so many more people ripping on Crimson Desert for being a boring, uninspired collectathon if it was published by Ubisoft

Brody

My hot take is that a remake is often the best way to experience a game. I used to think it was "cheating" to play the remake of a classic game and just never end up experiencing it at all. Once I got over that hump I was able to enjoy games like Final Fantasy VII and resident evil 2-4 without the guilt of not experiencing the originals.

Joseph Pisciotta

I’m almost 40. I really only want to play remakes and remasters of old games or new games from series or creators I already love.

Daniel Nash

AI will, long-term, cause creativity drain in the games industry and other creative sectors of tech—not because of cognitive atrophy from relying on AI, but because of the rise in component prices and proliferation of increasingly closed hardware/software systems. Relatively cheap PC building gave young people an entry point into DIY making, and introduced them to the possibilities of what they could do with their mind and a little resourcefulness. If those avenues close, creative industries will run shorter and shorter on people who have the self-belief to create.

Fredy Cevallos

Hot take: video game music doesn’t really matter that much. It’s fine in the moment, but I almost never have gone and listened to one outside of Night City made for cyberpunk. The only music bar I have is don’t be purposely irritating.

Ian Eifert

Astro Bot is just Sack Boy rebranded.

Katie Muse

Official companion apps are fun actually! Bring back companion apps! I want to manage my skill tree, track collectibles, and solve puzzles like in the old Assassin’s Creed mobile apps.

notthetoilet

Every game should have "god mode" or at least a cheats menu. Gate me from achievements I don't care, but just let me run around in your world and look at the assets free of consequence.

AL9thousand

I know this is a privileged and demented take, but I loved the pandemic because I was paid unemployment to stay inside and game for about a year and a half. I was already acclimated to hanging out with friends in discord, so I never really took the mental health hit that everyone talks about. I am so nostalgic for that time.

TCFaith

I miss “Welcome back, Bucket.”

Justin Marin

Multiplayer games need an unc game mode for people that can only put in like a couple hours per week on the game. Use palantir to verify that we're actually unc to prevent smurfs or whatever, at least make the surveillance state work for us!

Man Overboard

Here's a hot take: let the merchant host!! Justice for the merchant

Joe Gerace

hard diarrhea, but i respect that position.

Ken Major

CRT do not magically "enhance" modern pixel art. It's purely subjective. Yes, retro games look better on a CRT because that's the hardware the artists were developing for. They had limited color pallets and knew their artwork would be blurry on consumer TVs and adjusted for compatibility. Modern pixel art is its own aesthetic. It's very deliberate and intentional. Like laying mosaic tiles. Techniques like Aliasing and dithering are used completely different than retro art. Any "benefit" you get from a CRT is subjective because the artist has access to an unlimited pallet of colors, pixel transparency and other post process effect. They are integrated into the art itself. No CRT/filter needed. Your shitty display/filter adds ugly grey lines and distorts the artwork. Its like saying all black and white films are enhanced with a vignette filter. It doesn't enhance ALL pixel art.